Eli5: Does hotter temperatures evaporate water faster when cooking?

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If I put a cup of water in an oven proof container and boil it in an oven at 400 degrees, and then do it with an oven at 500 degrees,

Will the hotter oven evaporate the water faster?

My thought is it will all evaporate at 212 but the hotter oven would make it to 212 faster. Aside from that, would a hotter temp make it happen faster if all other things were equal?

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The hotter the oven the faster the water will typically evaporate.

Once water reaches the boiling point at 212F it cannot get any hotter, however any heat energy that it gets from the oven will be used to evaporate water(which takes quite a lot of energy), so the more heat energy the more evaporation.

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